Legal Opinion
Forbes v. Edgar
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided April 18, 1997No. 95-3134PublishedCited by 417 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERENCE T. EVANS, Circuit Judge.
When Lisa Forbes entered the Dwight Correctional Center as a prisoner in 1987 her Mantoux skin test for tuberculosis was negative. Tests for several years thereafter were also negative. A test administered in August 1992, however, was positive. Drawing an obvious conclusion, Forbes contends that she came in contact with the tubercle bacilli at Dwight. Her next conclusion is a bigger leap: she contends in this lawsuit that prison officials and others — in allowing her to be exposed — were deliberately indifferent to her serious medical needs, in violation of the…
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